Union Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

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Union Street
NYCS-bull-trans-D.svg NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Manhattan bound platform
Station statistics
Address Union Street & Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Park Slope
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services       D late nights (late nights)
      N late nights (late nights)
      R all except late nights (all except late nights)
Transit connections Bus transport NYCT Bus: B63 (on Fifth Avenue)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened June 22, 1915; 109 years ago (June 22, 1915)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 2,073,096[2]Increase 0.4%
Rank 242
Station succession
Next north Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center: D late nights N late nights R all except late nights
Next south Ninth Street: D late nights N late nights R all except late nights

Union Street is a local station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street in Brooklyn, New York City, serving the communities of Park Slope, Gowanus and Carroll Gardens. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the D and N assume local service along Fourth Avenue.

Station layout

G Street Level Exit/Entrance
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
P
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound local NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center)
NYCS-bull-trans-D.svg toward 205th Street, NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg toward Ditmars Boulevard (late nights) (Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center)
Northbound express NYCS-bull-trans-D.svg NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg do not stop here
Southbound express NYCS-bull-trans-D.svg NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg do not stop here →
Southbound local NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (Ninth Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-D.svg NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (late nights) (Ninth Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

This underground station, which opened on June 22, 1915,[1] has four tracks and two side platforms. The center express tracks are used by the D and N during daytime hours. A black and white curtain wall separates them from the local tracks.

Each platform has one same-level fare control area in the center and there are no crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfer between directions. The Manhattan-bound side has a fare control area, a turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs. The one on the Manhattan-bound platform goes up to the southeast corner of Union Street and Fourth Avenue while the one on the Bay Ridge-bound platform goes up to the southwest corner. The Bay Ridge-bound side has a fare control area, a turnstile bank (but without a token booth), and two street stairs.

Both platforms are columnless except for a section at their extreme north ends, where they were extended in the 1950s to accommodate the standard length of a B Division train (600 feet). Here, the columns are cream colored I-beams.

Renovations

This station was renovated twice. The first time was in the late 1970s, which including repairing the staircases and platform edges, replacing the incandescent lighting with fluorescent lighting, and replacing the original platform wall tiles and mosaic signs with cinderblock tiles that are colored white except for where the platform signs (in the standard white letting and black background) are. Here, they are colored gray.

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The colored tilework forms part of the station art installation

This station was renovated again from 1990-1994. In addition to upgrading the same elements that were replaced in the previous overhaul, tiling on floors and track walls, the public announcement system, and safety threads along platform edges and track-beds were replaced. It also included an art installation by Emmett Wigglesworth called CommUnion.[3] It features twenty-two panels of various designs in the recessed area of the platform tiles above the station signs and other designs on the openings in the track walls.

References

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